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Welcome to your new home. The wrestling world has changed in a lot of ways as wrestling fans are now able to see almost every major promotion in the world if they choose to take the time to do so. That can offer some benefits to the wrestlers as fans can be more familiar with wrestlers arriving in a new company, which will be the case in a few weeks in an important spot.
The WWE Women’s Revolution has changed a lot of things in a good way for women’s wrestling. After spending years as a glorified side show, women’s wrestling has become far more prominent and important since the Revolution began. However, there were other wrestlers and promotions which did a lot for women’s wrestling before WWE with Impact wrestling near the top of the list. Now they are reviving the Knockouts Tag Team Titles in a tournament, which will include some former WWE talents.
During this weekend’s Turning Point event, Impact Wrestling revealed the brackets for the upcoming Knockouts Tag Team Titles tournamen..

Welcome to KB’s Old School (and New School) Reviews. I’ve been reviewing wrestling shows for over ten years now and have reviewed over 5,000 shows. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I’ll be posting a new review here on Wrestlingrumors.net. It could be anything from modern WWE to old school to indies to anything in between. Note that I rate using letters instead of stars and I don’t rate matches under three minutes as really, how good or bad can something that short be?
Worlds Collide
Date: January 25, 2020
Location: Toyota Center, Houston, Texas
Commentators: Tom Phillips, Nigel McGuinness
It’s a big night in Texas, and not just because I finally remembered that the show isn’t called When Worlds Collide. This is NXT vs. NXT UK and the card is actually stacked, with a bunch of matches that could be awesome. If they live up to the hype, it’s a show of the year contender. Let’s get to it.
Kickoff Show: Mia Yim vs. Kay Lee Ray
Non-title. Mia knocks her into the corner to start and hi..

It was quite the change. One of the biggest wrestling surprise of the week saw Zelina Vega released from WWE. This seemed to come as the result of Vega disagreeing with WWE’s new policy regarding the Twitch streaming service, which would see WWE take over its wrestlers’ accounts. Vega’s release seemed to come out of nowhere and now we are finding out a little more about it.
Vega was released on Friday, with the announcement coming just after she posted a tweet saying that she supports unionization. This would have seemed to be the reason for the release, but according to Post Wrestling, Vega knew of the release before she had posted the tweet. According to Fightful Select, wrestlers in both WWE and AEW were shocked and surprised by the release and were trying to find out more information about the situation. After her release was announced, Vega took to Twitter, thanking the fans for allowing her to have the last four years.
I want to say thank you all very much for the last 3-4 year..

Maybe not so much. There are a lot of people under the WWE banner but over the course of the year, that number has gone down more than once. Back in April, WWE released several wrestlers and backstage workers from the company. This is not the kind of thing that you want to see happen but given how everything has changed due to the Coronavirus pandemic, it should not come as a surprise. Now some of them are coming back, but things are not quite the same.
While WWE released so many wrestlers from the company, they also suggested that some of them will be brought back when the situation begins to change. Part of the problem was that it was not clear when everything was going to be back to normal, which left a lot of people hanging for a very long time. About seven months later, some of those names are back but there is a bit of a catch.
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, some of the wrestlers who have been brought back to the company are being brought back for lower pay. Th..

Maybe not? The Coronavirus has changed the way all kinds of things work in the world and wrestling has certainly not been left out. It is the kind of thing that you cannot see coming and all wrestling companies, including WWE are still trying to figure out the way around the whole situation. There have been a variety of changes made, but one of the bigger changes might still be there when the pandemic is over.
Live events are one of the more important things that WWE has to offer. While they might not be the strongest financial resource for the company, they are a good way to drum up interest in the product as well as getting wrestlers in the ring for some practice and selling merchandise. That has been the case for a long time, but then the pandemic changed everything and it might not be changed back.
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, wrestlers have been told that the old system of live events will not be returning even when the Coronavirus pandemic is over. WWE has al..

One more on the roster. WWE is a rather powerful wrestling company which can do a lot of good things with what they have. Their status and financial resources are very alluring to a lot of wrestlers and it is not surprising to see a lot of wrestlers wanting to be brought to the company, even if it means that they are going to be in the NXT developmental system. Another wrestler is likely to be doing just that.
While it is still the official minor league of WWE, NXT is quite the destination for a lot of wrestlers. The weekly television show is broadcast on national television every Wednesday night and the promotion features a heck of a lineup with some of the top independent wrestlers in the world having walked through the doors at one time or another. Now NXT might have picked up another name.
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, independent wrestlers Alex Zayne is believed to have signed with WWE. This comes after Zayne has wrapped up his independent dates and has not ann..

Can you blame him? WWE has kind of a weird setup with all of its rosters as both Monday Night Raw and SmackDown are seen as the big leagues, but NXT is on for two hours a week in prime time on the same network as USA, but is seen as the minor league show. Officially that is what it is, but not some of the main roster wrestlers are more interested in heading there than sticking around the main roster, including one NXT legend.
One of the worst fears for an NXT fan is to see a wrestler called up and having nothing to do on Monday Night Raw or SmackDown. For some reason, this happens far too often and they are left in limbo. This isn’t just the case for an NXT wrestler though as sometimes it happens to wrestlers who have been on the main roster for a long time. That is the case with one former NXT star and now he has been trying to head back down, albeit to no avail.
According to the WrestleVotes Twitter account, former NXT Champion and SmackDown star Aleister Black recently requested t..

It’s quite the honor. There are all kinds of wrestling opinions out there but just like in anything else, there are some that are going to be seen as more valuable or important than others. Perhaps the biggest of them all outside of a major promotion is that of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, which has been reporting on the behind the scenes information in wrestling for over thirty years. The Newsletter also has its own Hall Of Fame and they now have a new class.
Wrestling has changed quite a bit in recent years and a lot of what you are going to see has changed with it. The modern action is often built around acrobatics and high flying with an emphasis on athleticism, which may or may not be your personal cup of tea. There are certainly people who love it though, and one of the most successful wrestlers of this era has received quite the honor.
The 2020 Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall Of Fame class has been announced, with the Kenny Omega among the class. Omega has since comme..

That’s another level of snake bit. Injuries are the kind of thing that you can never predict in wrestling and that is the kind of thing that makes them all the more devastating. You never know when someone is going to be knocked out of action for any length of time and then there is little more to do than wait. That seems to be the case again and now it is some amazing bad luck.
Chelsea Green made her full time main roster debut this week on SmackDown, participating in a fatal four way qualifying match for the Survivor Series women’s team. Green had appeared in NXT before and had been called up to the main roster but had yet to actually show up on television. Now she has done so, and somehow lightning has struck twice in a way that is almost impossible to believe.
WWE has announced that Green suffered a broken wrist during the four way match. It is not clear how long she will be out of action. This is the second time that Green has broken the same wrist, with the previous injury taki..

That’s a way to get people watching. The WWE Brand Split has changed the way the company is run again and that is a good thing in a lot of ways. It almost splits the company in two with Monday Night Raw and SmackDown being made into separate rosters. The is the kind of thing that can make for some interesting moments and we got to see one of those on Friday night.
One of the major appeals of the Brand Split is having the wrestlers kept apart for most of the year. It makes for some great ways to set up some major matches because you don’t get to see them very often. WWE makes a big deal out of having the roster going at each other on special occasions, with Survivor Series being one of them. We got a previous of it this week.
During this week’s SmackDown, Monday Night Raw’s Drew McIntyre made a surprise appearance to confront Universal Champion Roman Reigns. McIntyre was then cut off by Jey Uso, setting up a match between the two of them for later in the night, with McIntyre winning. ..

The lineup keeps growing. We are less than two weeks away from Survivor Series and that means it is time for some last minute moving to get the card set up. With so many things taking place on the show, it makes sense that some of them are going to get less of a priority than others. That includes filling out some of the Survivor Series match lineups, though a step was taken to fix that this week.
The Survivor Series elimination matches have been the show’s calling card over the years with almost every edition of the show’s history including at least one. That is the kind of thing that you get used to in a hurry and over the last few years, the matches have mainly focused on Monday Night Raw vs. SmackDown. The same is true this year, and now we have another name added to the list.
During this week’s SmackDown, Liv Morgan won a fatal four way match to join the SmackDown women’s Survivor Series team. Morgan defeated Tamina, Natalya and the debuting Chelsea Green in the match to qualify..

It had been previously reported that Chelsea Green had been called up to the main roster, but hadn’t made her appearance on either Raw or Smackdown. However, it would seem that her final destination has been revealed.
Tonight on Smackdown, Green made her official debut on the blue brand for Smackdown. After appearing for a brief moment with Adam Pearce backstage, she was announced as a surprise entrant in a Fatal 4-way match for a spot on the Women’s Survivor Series team. The other participants in the match were Natalya, Tamina and Liv Morgan.
You can see a clip of her in her match below:

In the match, Morgan pinned Tamina to pick up the victory.
Editor’s Note:
This is very interesting, because usually when a superstar gets a surprise entrance like Green did, they usually pick up the victory. However, about midway through the match, she left the ring and didn’t really return, while the others were battling it out. Either way, it’s great to see her back on television and I hope th..